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511.
by lgas 9y ago
I'm not trying to diminish the suffering/risks/etc of a million people, but that is about one-third of one percent of the US population so I think woolvalley's comment is pretty on point.
512.
by lgas 9y ago
You are correct. The answer on Quora is confused/misleading.
513.
by lgas 9y ago
> I'm actually surprised it works at all. Why?
514.
by lgas 9y ago
Gotcha, thanks.
515.
by lgas 9y ago
So it's like jupyter notebooks but you can't execute the code?
516.
by lgas 9y ago
Out of curiosity, why Goole before Amazon?
517.
by lgas 9y ago
It doesn't make sense that they would refuse to buy the efficient machines then... because they would be forced out of the market by people who did.
518.
by lgas 9y ago
Out of curiosity, in the description you linked you say it's a two-register model but then you mention R, O and I but only refer to O as a register. You refer to both R and I as accumulators. I assume at least one of them is also a r
519.
by lgas 9y ago
I agree.
520.
by lgas 9y ago
I don't understand why they would have to lower prices just because they bought more efficient machines. That defeats the point (as mentioned) but has two obvious solutions that I can think of: keep prices flat, or raise prices.
521.
by lgas 9y ago
You might like Haskell. The only possible conditional is a boolean and in general it's quite picky and precise about everything (with a few notable exceptions like partial functions).
522.
by lgas 9y ago
Well, you did say, in your own words: "No, Google shouldn't have hired him, and he made it very clear why..." That seems like a pretty clear assessment to me.
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by lgas 9y ago
Can you elaborate on why you think purity is overrated? I find the destruction of local reasoning by impurity to be one of the biggest drawbacks of non-functional languages.
524.
by lgas 9y ago
The whole thing was obviously driven by unfamiliarity and stubbornness in clinging to the familiar but your comparison of "map f" vs "map (\x -> f x)" is not equivalent to his comparison of "array.map(fn)" t
525.
by lgas 9y ago
This could explain some (even many) cases of being unable to capture evidence, but it would not explain no one ever being able to capture any meaningful decisive evidence.
526.
by lgas 9y ago
It's in the list but when you click on it, it says "Some of the languages you are using are not yet officially supported in Lambda, but there are still runtime workarounds. Here are some resources:" and links to a blog post a
527.
by lgas 9y ago
Maybe I'm just not that bright but I would expect to see a positive correlation between IQ and exceptional chess ability.
528.
by lgas 9y ago
It's accessible via TCP as well as unix sockets, so accessible from anywhere.
529.
by lgas 9y ago
Paul Graham seems to think downvoting as disagreement is fine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171
530.
by lgas 9y ago
Maybe objectively, but not subjectively.
531.
by lgas 9y ago
9pm to 5am, perhaps.
532.
by lgas 9y ago
Isn't that exactly what "Extended Distance Oracle RAC Clusters" provide?
533.
by lgas 9y ago
Passenger pigeons weren't really a resource and wikipedia page says they were mostly driven to extinction by deforestation for land use and lumber and fuel... which are resources.
534.
by lgas 9y ago
> I suggest that dataset bias is real but exaggerated by the tank story, giving a misleading indication of risks from deep learning and that it would be better to not repeat it but focus on established risks like AI systems optimizing fo
535.
by lgas 9y ago
Well, most people assume the development of AGI will in short order lead to the rise of superintelligent AGI and then the reason is precedent -- look at how we treat creatures that are less intelligent than we are. If you're lucky you
536.
by lgas 9y ago
Well, part of the difference is that now the "beep" program can be considered finished and other people can use it piping it to whatever programs they want, and it will never (or at least rarely, compared to the monolithic approac
537.
by lgas 9y ago
How is it any more/less of a store of value than BTC?
538.
by lgas 9y ago
Most people have no idea about security at all. Most developers, product managers, etc are part of most people.
539.
by lgas 9y ago
> No need to rely on us to run the service indefinitely. Elsewhere in the thread you've said that you control the domain and the presentation... so you can either get rid of or replace the page at any time or even just forget to ren
540.
by lgas 9y ago
You could make a bookmarklet that injects that CSS when you click on it and then leave it in the bookmarks bar. There used to be a couple of these that were good, Clear Read and Readable were the two I remember, but they all seem to have s

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